What better way to celebrate world poetry day than listening to some poetry recitals, both live and on youtube? The voice of Tom hiddleston (Yes, Loki) is poetic gold. Other people I love listening to as they recite and bring poetry alive are the legendary Indian actor, poet and activist, Amitabh Bachchan and American actor, Morgan Freeman.  What are you doing for world poetry day?

Here are some of my favourite quotes about poetry:

1. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper, it takes the human voice to infuse it with greater shades of meaning.” ~Maya Angelou
2. “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato
3. “Poetry is the life blood of rebellion, revolution and the raising of consciousness.” ~Alice Walker;
4. “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” ~Robert Frost
5. “Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray
6. “If there were no poetry on any day of the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be intolerable hunger.” ~Muriel Rukeyser
7. “In motion or in stillness, joy or sorrow, passion or pain..; all of life is synchronistic poetry.”~ Juliet ‘Kego
8. “You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.” ~Joseph Joubert
9.  “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powr
10. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origins in emotions recollected in tranquility.” ~Wordsworth
11. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
12. “Poetry is an echo asking the shadow to dance.” ~Carl Sandburg
13. “Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. “The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and collective body of our ancestral memories.” ~Margaret Walker
15. “Poetry is language in its most distilled and powerful.” ~Myles Goode
16. “Poetry is the chiseled marble of language; it’s a paint-spattered canvas – but the poet uses words instead of paint, and the canvas is you.”~ Mark Flanagan